Blackboard 5 Online Course Tool:
Blackboard 5 is the online course tool that is supported at UMBC. Blackboard is an effective tool for placing course materials online so that students can access them. Blackboard will work well as a stand-alone online course or as a resource for a class taught in a classroom setting. http://blackboard.umbc.edu



Blackboard Best Practices:
These Blackboard "best practices" are designed to help you develop the best possible use of instructional technologies and should not be considered as UMBC policy. http://www.umbc.edu/fdc/BBbestpractices.html



Developing Courses Online:
These are some resources that will help you if you are new to designing online courses or if you are just looking for a new way to do things. http://www.umbc.edu/fdc/fdcdeveloponline.html



UMBC Classroom Technology:
Classroom Technologies is an integral part of the Office of Instructional Technology and is responsible for the technologies that are related to classroom instruction These service include all of the teaching technologies in the lecture halls and the campus-wide use of standard audio visual equipment, classroom laptop computers and video/data projectors. Click on the link to see all of the services that they offer. http://www.umbc.edu/oit/classroomtechnology/av/avhome/av.html